Small original painting with a shelter-like house form, layered texture and expressive colour by Leonoor Ruigrok

A Small Form That Remains

Almost hidden

In this small original work, a house-like form is almost hidden in the landscape.

Small original painting with a shelter-like house form, layered texture and expressive colour by Leonoor Ruigrok

Not as a clear building, not as a neat place to enter, but more as a presence. A small construction between turquoise, green and warm earthy reds. The landscape moves around it, but the form remains.

Close-up of Shelter painting by Leonoor Ruigrok, showing turquoise, green and earthy textured brushwork around a dark house-like form.

That is what interests me about works like this. They do not have to be large to carry something. Sometimes the tension is precisely in the small: a roofline, a dark opening, a piece of shelter that almost disappears into colour and movement.


Small textured painting titled Shelter, with a dark house-like form in a turquoise, green and earthy abstract landscape.

For me, this touches on the idea of a shelter place. Not literally as a house, but as a place where something may hide for a while. A thought, a memory, a feeling that does not need to become clear just yet.

The work has something quiet, but also something stubborn. As if it says: I am small, but I am here.

This original work is available here.